Sen Clinton walks a day in a nurse's shoes

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"I think that as a result of our time together, Senator Clinton has a better understanding of the energy and hard work it takes to care for patients for 12 hours and then come home to raise a family," Estrada said in a statement. "I'd welcome her back on the job any time."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/08/14/clinton-walks-a-day-in-the-shoes-of-a-nurse/

It was only a day, but it's a step in the right direction.

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Hmmmm...interesting. I wonder what those files say.

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Go for it Hillary

We love you

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Hillary is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. I think this is exactly what the candidates should be doing, and that is getting to the grassroots level of the populace. Everything she does now is followed by a crew of cameras and security. So what will NOT be a photo op when all actions are scrutinized?

Hillary has always supported nurses. When she first came to New York she did. This is just a continuation of it.

OMG NO.

I remember her from 1992? She is the former wife of a husband who was president, but she talked like she was the president.

Yeah yeah, I arrived in New Orleans Charity Hospital to work as a travel nurse in a neuro ICU. I had just left a Homestead Florida assignment where I had lived in a tent for over a month because the hospital was half destroyed in hurricaine Andrew. I remember the day a few candidates. All the candidates visited the distruction.(literally put a halt to reconstruction)

She is the one who said nurses were not worth $14.00/hr.

There wasn't a nurse back then who liked her after that....but woe they loved her accused rapest husband............ sigh

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I think she is trying to undo that damaging rumor that went around about her about 10 years ago. The rumor had her saying that nurses are overpaid. I never saw any evidence that she really said any such thing but 20 different nurses must have told me about it. None of them could ever list a source like a newspaper quote or a video. Someone said it on a message board somewhere and most people that heard about it believed it.

She said we were not worth 14.00/hr. This is why you can't listen to politicians. If they are trying to please management, nurses are the problem. If they are trying to please nurses down with big biusiness is her talk.

I am ultra-ultra right-winged Baptist Republican, but will probably vote for Obama. If you havn't noticed we have a corrupt president in office at the momment and should prove to any christian that business is too corrupt to extablish healthcare and justice for all. So when Hillary demands universal healthcare I am all for her NOW........but I think Obama is the only one not leading people into a DITCH.:balloons:

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She said we were not worth 14.00/hr.

Can you please cite your source? I can find no evidence of her actually ever saying this when I research it.

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All the candidates are now being dogged by all the news services, and they in turn, only report on tabloid-style information geared to appeal to the 5th grade level. There might have been plenty of substance in that 2 1/2 hours only the public will not know it. The producers cut it all out. It's "boring" and we're all too "stupid". That's my take on it. News networks and cable TV thinks it's what we want.

If Hillary just wanted the photo op, she would have spent 15 minutes there.

Instead Hillary stayed 2 and a half hours their, had the nurse's pt ratio drop from the normal 6 to 4. ( I never worked in a nursing home with a nurse ratio of less than 30. She changed it to this instead of 15 minutes soshe could doop new nurses into thinking she really cares about them.

Sorry I was around ten years ago and know what your about.

Go GO Obama

Go Go John Edwards

Go GO Ron Paul

All the other candidates are just too bloody. As a nurse I deal with enough blood.

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Can you please cite your source? I can find no evidence of her actually ever saying this when I research it.

I wish I could. I know it was major talk in many nursing lounges in many facilities that I work for : in agency and contract. The talk was copious but grapevined and taken as known fact. It was used in jokes and as puns when we felt unappreciated. It wasn't local either cause I remember a nurse bringing it up in Hammond Louisiana after I had heard about it much earlier in New Orleans. If it is a political untruth that has gotten distorted it is a mighty good one. She wasn't even considering an office, her huseband was in his first term.. If I recall one of the times it was brought up was when someone said she should run for office. A bunch of nurses started to rant about what she said.

I think I was more offended that I had to deal with Clinton at all since she wasn't elected but her husband was and that was bad enough.

Now when I see her on TV, I can only think of how rude her followers in New York and Hollywood are to subject America to more of this crap.

GO GO OPRA

GO GO OBama 2008 :smiley_ab

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OMG NO.

I remember her from 1992? She is the former wife of a husband who was president, but she talked like she was the president.

Yeah yeah, I arrived in New Orleans Charity Hospital to work as a travel nurse in a neuro ICU. I had just left a Homestead Florida assignment where I had lived in a tent for over a month because the hospital was half destroyed in hurricaine Andrew. I remember the day a few candidates. All the candidates visited the distruction.(literally put a halt to reconstruction)

She is the one who said nurses were not worth $14.00/hr.

There wasn't a nurse back then who liked her after that....but woe they loved her accused rapest husband............ sigh

Rapest, thats a little strong and out of line. Besides being totally inaccurate

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He would be perfect in a movie about "The Stepford Husbands". Or "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". He is THAT creepy.

steph

Well, what do you expect? He's a lawyer - and he made his millions by suing doctors and hospitals!

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Go for it Hillary

We love you

Speak for yourself, Tom - not everyone loves her.

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Can you please cite your source? I can find no evidence of her actually ever saying this when I research it.

Me either. I'd always heard that she was very positive re:nurses.

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Me either. I'd always heard that she was very positive re:nurses.

And your the first one I have ever heard to have said that. Managers and supervisors.

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